Collecting Quote by Linus Pauling

“Collect and read dictionaries. Take a couple of minutes every day to read a page. Highlight fun words you didn't know before and write…

— Douglas Wilson

“Some people collect stamps, while I collect letters. My favorite ones are the rare ones, like Q and X.”

— Jarod Kintz

To make dictionaries is dull work.

— Samuel Johnson

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

— Piet Zwart

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more…

— Michael Gambon

“Dictionaries are like vitamins and floss; we buy them and then never use them. Even I, an English teacher, a lover of words, have…

— Jenny Baranick

A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the…

— William Osler

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

— Plato

“I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed them in…

— Adam Savage

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into…

— Samuel Johnson

“Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed…”

— Ammon Shea